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The Body Diagram can be used to assess this.
What is pain?
The most common area that a person develops a pressure sore
What is the low back or sacral area?
It is important that a scar remains ________________ to prevent tightening of tissue around it.
What is pliable?
This nerve will make your thumb, index finger and middle finger tingle when it is compressed
What is the median nerve?
The use of a tape measure is used for this type of edema assessment
What is circumferential?
There are 2 types of abnormal muscle tone
What are hypertonicity and hypotonicity?
A person's muscle tone is most affected when they are sitting in this position.
What is upright?
This scale is used to assess muscle tone
What is Modified Ashworth Scale?
These are the 5 areas of sensation that is assessed in OT
What are temperature, pain, touch, pressure and body position
These 2 areas of sensation are often tested at the same time.
What is proprioception and kinesthesia?
This part of the brain controls higher level cognitive functioning?
What is the cerebrum?
True or false. Muscle tone is variable and can be affected by
What is arousal, pain, fatigue, age, gender, emotional state, room temperature, illness, infection, postural position
This nerve is responsible for wrist extension
What is the radial nerve?
This is an assessment used to measure edema, in which the hand is placed in water and the amount of water displaced is measured
What is a volumeter?
This test, which assesses light touch and deep pressure, uses filaments as part of the testing material.
What is the Semmes Weinstein Monofilament Test?
This nerve innervates 1/2 of the ring finger and the small finger.
What is the ulnar nerve?
The more complex discriminative sensory system includes the ability to tell what an object is by feeling it with your eyes closed. This is known as
What is stereognosis?
Full AROM against gravity, without resistance, is considered what score on the MMT.
What is 3/5 or fair
True or False. You must test protective sensation before you can accurately assess discriminatory sensation
What is true?
Protective sensation includes these 3 senses.
What are light touch, pain, temperature
This portion of the brain controls muscle coordination, tone, and posture
What is the cerebellum?
The interoceptors pick up position, motion or speed and are located in the
What are the joints, muscles and tendons
This nervous system contains the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Quickly looking at someone's cognition is considered a _________
What is a screening?
Exteroceptors pick up sensation in the
What is skin?
This part of the brain controls the ANS function to the heart and lungs
what is the brainstem?
The peripheral nervous system is made up of the _______________ and ______________ nerves.
What is cranial and spinal nerves?
AROM in a joint will ______________ when there is edema
This structure is formed at the spinal cord and travels down behind the clavicle, eventually forming the peripheral nerves in the upper extremity.
What is the brachial plexus?
True or False. The SLUMS is considered a cognitive evaluation.
False. it is a screening tool which takes about 5-10 mins to administer